Improvement in weeding-hoes



A. S. 'DUNHAM.

Weeding-Hoes No. 167,229. Patented A-uz- 31,1875.

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AARON SOMERS DUNHAM, OF VERONA, NEW YORK.

IMPROVEMENT IN WEEDlNG-HOES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 167,229, dated August31, 1875 application filed April 19, 1875.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, AARON SOMIERS DUN- HAM, of Verona, Oneida county,New York, have invented an Improvement in lVeeding- Hoes, of which thefollowing is a specification:

My improvement consists in the form and construction of a hoe, and theattachment of the handle thereto, to facilitate the weeding andcultivating of crops.

The construction is as follows, referring to the accompanying drawing,in which- Figure l is a perspective view of the hoe. Fig. 2 is a plan ofthe upper face of the blade next the handle.

I form the blade a of the hoe of astraight flat plate of steel, somewhatthicker than an ordinary hoe-blade, and of an oblong form. (Shown inFig. 2.) One end of this blade is formed at right angles to the lower orcutting edge a, or so formed as to out without deviating the front edge.The other end is formed at an acute angle to said cutting-edge a, asseen in Fig. 2, and the edge a, as well as -the edges of the two ends,is beveled off to a sharp edge on the upper face at c, (the face nextthe handle,) as clearly seen in the draw ing. This bevel is veryessential on account of the thickness required for proper strength inthe blade, and it must be on the upper or working face to insure theproper working of the tool, which requires the bevel on that side totake hold of the weeds, &c. To the blade thus formed a goose-neck orother shank, b, is attached, either by brazing, by swaging out of theblade, or otherwise, as is found best in the manufacture. This shank bis inserted into a ferrule on a wooden handle, d, like.

end thereof inclinedv to the principal workingedge, and the edge beveledto an edge on the upper side, and having a long shank, 1), projecting uptherefrom, and recurved back to the line of the hoe-blade, where it isjoined with the handle, the whole being constructed, arranged, andcombined as and for the purposes above specified.

A. SOMERS DUN HAM.

Witnesses:

P. B. MOLENNAN, O. H. WARREN.

